Browsing by Thesis Semester "2022 Fall"
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A Court of Public Opinion: American Sex Work in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
(2022)Late nineteenth-century sex workers in the United States left behind few written records. In contrast, men and women not involved in the sex work trade made their opinions well known. To peacefully exist in the public ... -
A Faint Light
(2022)My orchestra piece, A Faint Light, has an introduction, five sections (Entering the mountain, The battle of ghosts I, Asking the God of the mountain, The battle of ghosts II, and The answer to the heart), and a coda. It ... -
A Systematic Review of Huikahi Reentry Circles: A Restorative Justice Process for Families Impacted by Incarceration
(2022)Research and criminological theory indicate that familial support is one of the most crucial aspects of the reentry process. Historically, the criminal justice system does not meet the reentry needs of incarceration-impacted ... -
Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Optimized Geometries of Vinyl Trialkylammonium, Vinylpyridinium and Vinyldiazonium Tetrafluoroborate Salts with Natural Bond Orbital Charge Distributions in the Gas Phase
(2022)N-Vinyltrialkylammonium and N-vinylimmonium tetrafluoroborate salts are novel classes of compounds discovered by Buszek and Jung. They were originally used as dienophiles and as ß-dialkylamino equivalents in Diels-Alder ... -
Accelerating data-driven discover in type 1 diabetes: an informatics-based approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2023] Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a lifelong chronic disease characterized by the absolute or near-absolute loss of insulin. For affected individuals, management of T1D is an unremitting challenge that ... -
Acculturation and social capital of Somali Muslim women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/31/2026] This study examines the social capital and acculturation of 20 Somali immigrant women who participate in a community garden in a small Minnesota town. Even though some of them did not enter the ... -
Adaptive Data-driven Optimization using Transfer Learning for Resilient, Energy-efficient, Resource-aware, and Secure Network Slicing in 5G-Advanced and 6G Wireless Systems
(2022)5G–Advanced is the next step in the evolution of the fifth–generation (5G) technology. It will introduce a new level of expanded capabilities beyond connections and enables a broader range of advanced applications and use ... -
Adsorption of fluorescent labeled E. coli in selected vegetative buffer systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Environmental pathogen contamination in water resources is one of the major water quality concerns throughout the world. There is growing increase in concern and interest for controlling water-borne pathogens in water ... -
AI-based framework for automatically extracting high-low features from NDS data to understand driver behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Our ability to detect and characterize unsafe driving behaviors in naturalistic driving environments and associate them with road crashes will be a significant step toward developing effective crash countermeasures. Due ... -
Alcohol/HIV-Induced Neurodeficit and Circumvention by Neuroprotective Agent
(2023)Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) remains a major problem in the United States, with usage varying between acute (binge) and chronic (heavy usage) staging. Alcohol Use Disorders affect 14.5 million people, with 9 million men and ... -
Algorithm-free methods in fusion frame construction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Over the past decade numerous papers have been published with novel methods for proving the existence of and constructing fusion frames under various restrictions on the ambient Hilbert space, set of subspace dimensions, ... -
An all-consuming conundrum : drivers of seed predation in tallgrass prairies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Post-dispersal seed predation is a determinant of seed availability for species establishment, and ultimately, community structure. For example, species with high intrinsic fitness and competitive ability may not remain ... -
Altering the timing of fixed-time artificial insemination and the interval from progestin withdrawal to prostaglandin F2a administration in estrus synchronization protocols for beef heifers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)An experiment (Chapter 2) was designed to evaluate later timepoints for fixedtime artificial insemination (FTAI) of beef heifers, with the hypothesis that use of a later timepoint would allow a greater proportion of heifers ... -
Amine modified silicates applied to direct air capture of CO2 with room temperature regeneration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)There is an urgent need to directly remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Solid adsorbent based chemisorption is a promising solution. In this work, two types of amines, Jeffamine T403 and TEPA, were combined with two types of ... -
An Ethnographic Case Study Examining the Experiences of African American Students with Nonresident Fathers
(2022)The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to identify influences that replace the presence of Black fathers with children living in non-paternal homes. For my research investigation, influence was defined as people ... -
An analysis of the MSHSAA competitive balance policy of 2020: has equity been achieved?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The proliferation of private schools' success in interscholastic athletics has led many state activities governing bodies to develop policies that help to ensure competitive balance (Johnson, Maxwell and Scott, 2019). The ... -
Anne of France as Madame La Grande: The Strategies of a Self-Fashioned Woman 1483-1522
(2022)A century and a half before Elizabeth I was the “Virgin Queen,” Anne of France created her own image in the form of “Madame la Grande,” a moniker specially formed to denote Anne’s high status and authority. Born in 1461 ... -
The anticipated, actual, and misunderstood value of Federal Work-study: a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2023] Financial Aid Awards for first-time college students include a variety of offerings, including scholarships, grants, and loans. One award of financial assistance, Federal Work-study, is different ... -
Approachable or appropriative? Black Americans' perceptions of codeswitched advertisements using African American Vernacular English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The present qualitative study investigated the phenomenon of using cultural dialect African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in codeswitched advertising by gathering Black American perceptions related to this semiotic ... -
Arabidopsis and Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris two model organisms in plant pathology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Causative agent of black rot of crucifers, Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc), is a rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that belongs to the [gamma]-subdivision of Proteobacteria. It was first described in 1889 by ...